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By
Elie Wiesel
Penguin Books Ltd
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was
sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he
endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world
that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in
simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's
perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and
poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling
consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring
power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the
twentieth century.